Tamoxifen-resistant breast cancer cells are resistant to DNA-damaging chemotherapy because of upregulated BARD1 and BRCA1

Most breast cancer patients are estrogen receptor positive and thus benefit from treatments that inhibit estrogen production; however, one third of tamoxifen-treated patients develops resistance and relapse. Here the authors show that tamoxifen resistant cells are resistant to chemotherapy because o...

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Main Authors: Yinghua Zhu, Yujie Liu, Chao Zhang, Junjun Chu, Yanqing Wu, Yudong Li, Jieqiong Liu, Qian Li, Shunying Li, Qianfeng Shi, Liang Jin, Jianli Zhao, Dong Yin, Sol Efroni, Fengxi Su, Herui Yao, Erwei Song, Qiang Liu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2018-04-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-03951-0